RESEARCH CENTRES, NETWORKS AND CONCENTRATIONS
(Australia, the UK, Canada and the United States)

Centre for Refugee Research, University of New South Wales
http://www.crr.unsw.edu.au/
An interdisciplinary centre based at the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales. The website focuses on refugees in the Asia-Pacific region and provides a range of information on many aspects of refugee rights, gender, refugee law, policy, resettlement and the provision of health and social services. It details past and current research projects and research papers.

Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/icg/index.php
The institute comprises a network of research affiliations, with three research centres providing the organisational core: Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights; Corporate Citizenship Research Unit; Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific. The website details publications, reports, news and events, and contains PDF copies of the institute’s regular bulletin.

Critical Race, Ethnicity and Diaspora Studies, Macquarie University (Research Concentration within the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies)
Publications list: http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/research/research_race_pub.php
Conveners: Joseph Pugliese and Goldie Osuri. A research concentration investigating the ways in which the contemporary system of nation-states has been and continues to be underpinned by colonial and racialised systems of knowledge: theories of law, culture, geography, history, religion, bodies, the human, science, medicine, development and other discursive productions. The website details recent events and publications, but is not a research resource in itself.

Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University of Technology
http://info.humanrights.curtin.edu.au/
A multi-disciplinary research and teaching centre, dealing in part with asylum seekers and refugees. The website contains a comprehensive list of publications. Research projects concerning asylum seekers and refugees include: “Caring for Asylum Seekers in Australia: Bioethics and Human Rights”, headed by Deborah Zion from the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University; “ People’s Inquiry into Immigration Detention”, which has gathered testimonial evidence from over 300 sources around Australia including former detainees, their supporters, activists, health professionals, former officers and others.

Researchers for Asylum Seekers, Melbourne
http://www.ras.unimelb.edu.au/
RAS is affiliated within the School of Behavioural Science, University of Melbourne. It aims to raise awareness of the political and social situation of asylum seekers in Australia through forums, conferences, research and the distribution of issues information. The website contains a bibliography organised according to topics, including policy, psychological issues, philosophical issues, events.

Forced Migration Online, University of Oxford
http://www.forcedmigration.org/
The website provides access to a variety of resources, including PDF versions of the Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre Working Papers, and a directory of organisations. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, scholars and students.

Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/
CRONEM is a multidisciplinary research centre bringing together scholars working in the fields of nation, ethnicity, multiculturalism, citizenship and migration. It investigates the intersections of these topics primarily through arts and humanities research. The Centre involves researchers at Surrey and Roehampton Universities.

Refugee Council Archive, University of East London
http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/news.htm
Regularly updated news and information about the UEL archive which is housed within its own suite and contains in excess of 20,000 items. The archive is a primary research tool for scholars of forced migration, containing a range of resources including published books and journals, newsletters, published and unpublished reports, grey literature, articles and statistics. An online catalogue is currently in development.

In Place of War, University of Manchester
http://www.inplaceofwar.net/
Based at the University of Manchester, In Place of War project researches and develops performance projects in sites of crisis and conflict, linking scholars and theatre makers. The website contains a bibliography and database of digital artifacts, including performance records.

Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto
http://crs.yorku.ca/
Founded in 1988, this research-based centre is, along with the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, one of the largest and most active centres in Refugee Studies in the world. The Centre fosters interdisciplinary and collaborative research. It produces Refuge, a periodical on research on refugee issues. The website provides links to many online resources, particularly in USA and Canada, as well as offering information on accessing refugee library resources and contacting CRS members for interview purposes. Current research projects and forthcoming events are detailed.

International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship (ICMEC)
http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/
A collaborative undertaking involving researchers from The New School and other New York-area universities (including Columbia University, New York University, City University of New York, and Fordham University). The Center advocates interdisciplinary research. The website provides a list-serve so that researchers can be kept up to date with the current projects and research, as well as links to further online resources and research in the field of refugee studies. ICMEC hosts conferences, workshops, and community forums at The New School for Social Research to bring together international and area scholars, practitioners and policymakers.

Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/
Established in 1999 and based at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, the CGRS focuses primarily on researching issues around and supporting female asylum seekers and refugees fleeing gender persecution. The center’s research is used primarily to help develop law and policy. The website provides background information on CGRS as well as detailing its current projects. In addition, it provides links to CGRS publications and newsletters as well as a large volume of current and archived news articles.

Refuge and Rejection, Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/proj/refugee/
This was an internet-based research project on refugees from the perspective of the humanities. The online format provided a forum for humanities scholars and the wider community to work together.

François Matarasso
http://web.me.com/matarasso/one/Home.html
UK-based Matarasso is a freelance writer, researcher and consultant with a background in community arts. This website features numerous academic papers, reports and speeches on a range of topics, such as arts and human rights, arts and social exclusion, cultural heritage and community development, rural arts, cultural policy and education, arts and democracy.